Notes from the Access to Knowledge Global Academy Workshop

The Access to Knowledge Global Academy workshop took place last week in Cape Town, South Africa and it was a major success. Workshop participants from around the world enjoyed two days of engaging and enlightening roundtable discussions about a broad range of A2K issues. Below are notes from four of those roundtables.

A2K4 Panel II: Technologies of Dissent: Information and Expression in a Digital World

This panel explores A2K issues relevant to classic civil and political rights, particularly freedom of expression. Political expression and dissent are increasingly exercised online, through technologies ranging from social networking tools, blogs, email, and cell phones to more concealed and complex technical approaches such as the use of distributed denial of service attacks to disrupt [...]